Thursday's race didn't turn out as I'd hoped. Little bits of everything and lots of nothing. Arcano won (pah). Red Jazz was 3rd but not at the e/w price and Reignier was 4th... (at an e/w price). Tawaabb was the horse that was punted (12s --> 8s) but that doesn't matter as it finished 7th.
Racing Post Update:
I don't miss you at all
Today's racing is excellent, which is a shame because I can't find a tasty big priced winner for you. If in doubt leave it out and all that, let's keep our winnings for another day. And you may as well leave the Scoop 6 alone too as it won't be won this week.
The Ashes:
Can't say I'm impressed with England at all.
First of all they pick Panesar when he can't bat, field or now bowl. With Flintoff not 100% it was gonna be a risk to have only 3 seamers.
Their next faux pas was that ridiculous nightwatchman crap. Just who is he protecting?!?!?!? So Prior now has to hit boundaries coz he is protecting Anderson, when it should be the other way round and of course Prior gets out. Stupid Strauss. 400 is the MINIMUM on that pitch, 550 looks the par score and England are behind the 8 ball again. The should escape this time thanks to it being played in the wettest city in the universe however they didn't bother trying to save the Lord's Test in 2005. Do you remember play on sunday not starting til about 4pm and with dark clouds everywhere and rain set for tomorrow. England managed to lose 5 wickets in about 35 mins with some of the worst batting ever witnessed outside Frimley Green under-9's (when 3 players had Chicken-Pox), Giles and Jones being particularly dumb.
Oh where was I, that was it, moaning about English Cricket (I've just remembered another rant about the 2006-07 series - What do you mean it was never played, so we only need to draw this series to retain the Ashes then.... Sky being one of the worst culprits, and they made me stay up all night for Adelaide for that 'performance' :-) ), but anyway......
Thirdly, yes the ball was doing a bit on thursday but why oh why do England's batsman think that this is a Twenty/20 match..... This is Test cricket , the pinnacle of your life mate, stop sweeping balls that can't be swept KP and play every ball on its merits.... Hauritz is spinning the ball more on day 1 than our two will be on days 2, 3, & 4 and he's shit.
So the pitch looks benign, you wait til England bat.. The snakes in the pitch will all come out as per usual when England are in. The Aussie attack looks particularly average (but better than ours). Shame we can't concentrate for more than a session.
Rant of the Week: Shane Warne is playing in the World Series of Poker Main Event. He's dumped off 200k in chips in about an hour so he'll be back in the studio very soon. Perhaps he'll remember his history a bit better. His quote that Cardiff doesn't deserve the 1st Test *whinge*, it's traditional that it should go to Lord's *whine*. England are running scared *blah*.
Piss of Warnie... Get your facts right. Yes England haven't beaten you lot since 1934 at headquarters, yet this is the complete list of 5/6 Test Ashes series that the 1st Test has been played at Lord's:
1977
2005
THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!..... 1 series before 2005.....
If you want I'll reel off the rest....
Nottingham 1899, 1905, 1921, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1956, 1964, 1981
Birmingham 1902, 1909, 1961, 1975, 1997, 2001
Manchester 1968, 1972, 1993
Leeds 1985, 1989.
There you go you baldie freak of nature..... *Love you really*... Just don't mess with history, especially my history....
The West Indies are on strike... Tino 'Windows' Best is leading their attack vs Banglandesh. Ho ho ho. Looks like Stanford really stuffed them over if they aren't paying their players. You wouldn't really know considering how lazy-arsed they were in the Test series vs England. By the looks of it maybe a couple of them won't get back in....
That's it for now.... ;-) *phew*
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